The young people of the Focolare Movement, in conjunction with the Genfest in Brazil, also organised 44 local editions of the Genfest in various countries around the world. Here are some pictures of the events in the various countries and some short testimonies from Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Egypt, Jordan, Slovakia and Korea.
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“Together to Care – For Our Humanity and Our Common Home” represents a commitment by the Youth for a United World to the Pact for the Future, approved by the United Nations last September.
On 7 December 1943, as the rain and wind raged, Chiara Lubich went to the Capuchin Church in Trent, Italy, to consecrate herself to God forever, in alone, she and the priest who accompanied her as her spiritual father. She would marry God. But with this act she would also begin a new path. Let us read and listen to the words with which Chiara Lubich herself recalled that day.
German Lutheran Bishop, Christian Krause, former President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), died on 28th November. Bishop Brendan Leahy, Coordinator of the Bishops Friends of the Focolare Movement, remembers him.
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